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Thursday, May 5, 2016

The Perfect Age or Aged to Perfection?

It's time to begin stocking up on birthday cards again. My stash seems to get really low about this time every year and, in my family, we have lots of summer birthdays. Since I bought that set of rubber stamps the other day, I have been inspired to look through my collection of rubber and use a couple of them. I also wanted to try coloring on kraft again, not something which has been all that successful for me in the past but I'm satisfied with this one.

This time, I started with kraft card stock for the card base, stamped the flower and the sentiments with Stazon ink, and began my coloring using gel pens. After I got the basic lines colored with gel; ink, I went over it with ProMarkers. The tulip stamp is from Rubber Stampede, and the sentiments are from Hero Arts and Stampabilities.

I knew I wanted something CAS but decided on a couple of embellishments; paper ribbon and paper embellishments - staying with the kraft theme. The paper ribbon was the last of something I had in my scrap basket.

17 comments:

I love working with Kraft paper for cards. I just love how you did your little butterfly and flower with the print. I m use remember this...yup...I need to do a lot of birthday cards...heck...I need a lot of everything!

Love how the bright tulip looks on the kraft!!! That paper ribbon is gorgeous.....I bet you're sad to use the rest of it!! I think that's why I hoard my craft supplies...so they don't get "gone"! Thanks for sharing with us at CAGI this week!!Susan - DT

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